See also: vacò

Catalan

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vaco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of vacar

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈva.ko/
  • Rhymes: -ako
  • Hyphenation: và‧co

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vaco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of vacare

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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  • voco (in mss. of Plautus)

Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *wakos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (to lack; empty).[1] The form in vo- possibly from vocīvus, shifted in pretonic syllable.

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Verb

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vacō (present infinitive vacāre, perfect active vacāvī, supine vacātum); first conjugation

  1. to be empty, void
  2. to be unoccupied, vacant
  3. to be idle, at leisure [with dative]
    Synonyms: langueō, dēsideō, iaceō, cessō, resideō, sileō, conquiēscō
    Philosophiae vacat.
    He has leisure for philosophy.
  4. to be free to attend, have time, not be under other obligation

Conjugation

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1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

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Descendants

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References

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  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vacō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 649
  • Weiss, Michael L. (2009) Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin[1], Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, →ISBN, page 141
  1. ^ Pokorny 141, pages 345-346

Further reading

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  • vaco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • vaco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vaco in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • vaco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be free from business: negotiis vacare
    • to be free from blame: culpa carere, vacare

Neapolitan

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Etymology

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From the older (and still regionally used) vao, from Latin vādō.

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Verb

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vaco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of

References

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  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 822: “vo a comprare” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Pali

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Noun

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vaco

  1. nominative/vocative/accusative singular of vacas (speech)

Portuguese

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vaco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of vacar

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbako/ [ˈba.ko]
  • Rhymes: -ako
  • Syllabification: va‧co

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin vacuus.

Adjective

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vaco (feminine vaca, masculine plural vacos, feminine plural vacas)

  1. (formal) vacant; blank
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Etymology 2

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Masculine variant of vaca (cow).

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vaco m (plural vacos)

  1. (colloquial) bull

Etymology 3

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Verb

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vaco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of vacar

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